@TheLurkerFox

7 months ago

I suppose the easiest way to explain it is the way I would explain it to my mom. "It's like writing a script for a movie, but instead of a movie, they do drawings!"
My mom is big into cinematography, which is how I explained game development to her - "An interactive movie you are the main actor in" and explained the difference between character designer (Costume department) and level designer (Set artists), and the like! Slowly it made sense to her! So you can maybe turn it around on your folks too? Like "I am like a screenwriter for a movie or play, the artists are like set designers, and the typesetter is like the sound department."
Sometimes putting things into perspective helps!
That's how I explained streaming to my mom and explained that it's actually hard work!
Originally she was like "So, you play games with your friends in VC all the time how is streaming different?"
And then I explained to her "It's like being a radioshow host! I need to keep talking and keep the viewers engaged. And unlike on the radio, where they get music breaks, I need to focus on the game, on the stream stats to make sure nothing is bugging out, and the live chat! And vefore stream there's a lot of prepwork going into it, like overlays, model, camera, bots and so on!"
Now she doesn't judge me for streaming and in fact encourages it because she sees how, despite feeling tired after stream, it's always a sort of a fulfilled tired.

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